![]() They were given no instructions on what to say other than that it was to be a greeting to possible extraterrestrials and that it must be brief. Many of the speakers were from Cornell University and the surrounding communities. Unfortunately, not much information is given about the individual speakers. The story behind the creation of the "interstellar message" is chronicled in the book, "Murmurs of Earth", by Carl Sagan, et al. Linda Salzman Sagan was given the task of assembling the greetings. Because of the launch schedule, Sagan (and those he got to help him) was not given a lot of time. NASA asked Dr Carl Sagan of Cornell University to assemble a greeting and gave him the freedom to choose the format and what would be included. In addition to pictures and music and sounds from earth, greetings in 55 languages were included. One of the purposes was to send a message to extraterrestrials who might find the spacecraft as the spacecraft journeyed through interstellar space. ![]() ![]() A golden phonograph record was attached to each of the Voyager spacecraft that were launched almost 25 years ago. ![]()
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